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Re: Autom4te::General


From: Russ Allbery
Subject: Re: Autom4te::General
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:05:49 -0700
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry, I'm talking about how `die' computes the exit status of your
> program, not what the diagnostic contains.

Ah, okay, I understand.

In the very, very few times that I've written a program that cared about
exit status other than zero or non-zero, I've written my own error
reporting routines.  I don't have any idea why you'd care for automake or
autoconf, but if you do mandate particular exit statuses, die isn't the
best tool.

-- 
Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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